Them oldies are coming! And since you are reading this, you are probably part of it…
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/08/world-population-over-65-in-2050/
Best image of Trump yet.
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21661010-when-republicans-ditch-donald-trump-they-will-also-have-confront-his-supporters-anger
Rates will go up
http://uk.businessinsider.com/two-conflicting-interpretations-of-recent-fed-communication-2015-8
Who sold the European bonds…?
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/12/2137193/who-sold-european-bonds/
Did I post this one already? Even more reading on China.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2015/08/is-chinas-growth-miracle-over.html
“Who Will Own the Robots?”
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/538401/who-will-own-the-robots/
A bubble in commercial real estate?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/surge-in-commercial-real-estate-prices-stirs-bubble-worries-1439415930
Cool stuff. I am telling ya.
http://www.bis.org/review/r150811a.pdf
Commodities: the falling tide (part I): how oil bear markets normally last for some time…
http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-new-structure-of-the-oil-market-2015-8
Inflation protection and stocks
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/protection-against-rising-rates-inflation/
The link between China and commodities
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-12/beware-the-bubble-in-bubble-warnings
The other elephant in the room: China…
http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-nobody-believes-chinas-growth-figures-and-the-truth-could-be-much-worse-2015-8
And this is the more structural headwind that China is facing
http://uk.businessinsider.com/chinas-four-decade-miracle-ends-this-year-2015-8
Two ways of looking at the biggest CO2 emitters in the world
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/08/daily-chart-down-under-and-dirty
New trends in the financial sector
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/08/innovation-clusters/
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